Chelsea Light Moving was an American alternative rock band formed in 2012 in New York City.

The band's songs featured prominent references to avant garde artists, the 1960s counterculture movement, and New York City.

Thurston Moore chose the band's name due to its association with a moving company started by composer Philip Glass: I decided to call the band "Chelsea Light Moving" because I had been reading this book called Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes, which is a history of New York underground music from 1972 to around 1978.

[3]Current countercultural movements are also addressed by Chelsea Light Moving, notably the Occupy Wall Street on the song "Lip": Those lyrics do have a certain cynicism to them.

The old guard of protests became mollified by the machine of power and money, it didn't really have much effect any more, so there needed to be a new way of bringing attention to any kind of injustice that goes on socially.