Check Out How Your Favorite Musicians Stumbled Into Choosing Their Now-Iconic Names

Vampire Weekend Was Originally The Name Of A Film Project

Photo Credit: D Dipasupil/WireImage

The indie rock band that basically defined Pitchfork’s sound preference for the better part of the early 2000s formed at Columbia University. It also took that Ivy League sense of determination to come up with a name. While in college, frontman Ezra Koenig was working on a film project titled Vampire Weekend (this was back when Twilight was super trendy and vampires were the “it” monster).

The film followed a man named Walcot who had to save Cape Cod from a vampire invasion. Koenig never finished his film, but he did borrow the name for his brand new band. Walcot even got his own song.