Set It Off

A pop band with punk roots, Set It Off has spent a decade topping the charts and broadening their sound. ∙ Founded in 2008 by Cody Carson and a group of his high school friends, the Tampa-based band took their name from a lyric in Fall Out Boy’s “Calm Before the Storm.” ∙ Set It Off’s debut LP, 2012’s Cinematics, cracked the Billboard 200 and reached No. 4 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. ∙ New Years Day frontwoman Ash Costello guested on “Partners in Crime,” one of Cinematics’s breakout tracks. ∙ “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” from 2014’s Duality, featured The Academy Is... frontman William Beckett and has since become Set It Off’s most popular song. ∙ Upside Down reached No. 11 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart in 2016, and 2019’s Midnight went even higher, peaking at No. 8. ∙ Piecing together lyrics submitted by their fans during a livestream, Set It Off wrote the 2018 single “Hourglass Love” and posted the finished product online a few days later.