[1][2] The band began at Emory University where Scott Tyler (from Nashville, Tennessee), Adam Hoffman (from Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Matt Lipkins (from Larchmont, New York) met during their freshmen year in 2007.

The term "shadowboxer" can be defined as someone who makes the motions of attack or defense, and for the band it represents rhythm and method.

[7]On December 3, 2013, Hoffman tweeted to Justin Timberlake from the band's Twitter account, telling him he needed to check out their cover of his song "Pusher Love Girl".

[8] The trio met with Timberlake a couple of weeks later during his 20/20 Tour[9] and he offered to mentor them and help them shape their sound.

[10] Later, he signed them to his artist development label, Villa 40,[2][11] and in June 2017, the band joined Justin Timberlake and K-Kov at a studio in New York to record new music.

[12] In 2018, The Shadowboxers were asked to join Timberlake on his Man of the Woods tour, as openers from March 13, 2018 - January 29, 2019.

Recorded at The Loft Studios in New York City, the single "Hot Damn" was co-produced by Timberlake and K-Kov.

[27] It was performed live on The Today Show[28] and The Talk[29] and placed on Spotify's United States Viral Top 50 playlist.

On August 9, 2018, the band released the single "Finding A Problem," a personal song about the "recognition in yourself that maybe it's you not committing fully to something as opposed to everyone else.

The Shadowboxers wrote the title track for the Netflix feature film, "The Last Summer" starring KJ Apa.

The title, “Honeymoon” was something Matt brought in, and in trying to work out a song around the word itself, he and AG thought it'd be interesting to write a deceptively romantic sounding sad ballad.

It exists in this sort of slinky in-between space which helps you feel the dichotomy of the intense resolve of the song combined with a kind of subconscious melancholy."

The track features a groovy guitar cutting into razor-sharp pop vocals, as the group sings about not letting go of a significant other, divine echoing harmonies cooing in the background.

It's a coincidental feeling for the group to be singing about, considering they're letting go of their sonic past to create this new chapter for themselves where they exhibit more creative control.