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BTS is one of the biggest groups in music, so it’s not hard to find tons of available merchandise dedicated to the Bangtan Boys. Rare collectibles – like vinyl box sets and other exclusive and officially licensed limited-edition items from BTS Official Merch, Weverse and fan sites like BT21 Merch or special collaborations like the Casetify anniversary collection — tend to fly off the shelves.

You can always check out sites like eBay and Mercari to get your hands on limited-edition or sold-out BTS merch, but for BTS fans who might not have tons of money to spend on resale items, we put together a list of some of the best (and more affordable) unofficial BTS merch that you can buy from Amazon and Walmart right now.

Whether you’re an ARMY, or shopping for one, this roundup features pieces of BTS-inspired merch including apparel, photocards, calendars, jewelry, electronics, collectible figurines and other cool gift ideas for die-hard K-pop lovers — and almost everything on the list is under $50

If you’re a hardcore BTS stan you’ll know all about BT21 Line Friends. The cute little mascots were created through a collaboration between the South Korean boy band BTS and LINE FRIENDS, a global character brand. Whether you stan Suga or Jimin, you can show your loyalty by snagging yourself a sweet little headband affixed with each member’s BT21 character. The characters attached to the headband are 3D and plush.

Like the entry before this, you’ve got more BT21-inspired merch, this time in the form of a bracelet. The characters are clearly beloved, given they appear in a slew of the boy band’s merch. This stainless steel chain bracelet features every member’s assigned LINE FRIENDS characters so you can rep the whole band in style. This item of merch is very subtle, perfect for BTS fans who want to rock the band’s merch without looking too cheesy or loud.

BTS has an array of Funko Pop figures already available; however, if you’re a Suga solo stan, this one is for you. This Agust D figurine is inspired by the rapper’s 2023 hit “Haegeum” and depicts Suga in his music video look down to his accessories. The vinyl figure stands at 3.75 inches (9.5 cm) tall, the perfect size to display on a shelf.

Want to cook like BTS? With this BTS RECIPE BOOK 2, you can. The official merch contains 16 beginner-friendly South Korean recipes all inspired by BTS. These recipes are based on ones the boy band has actually used and include alternatives to some South Korean ingredients. You’ve also got vegan and gluten-free options. For our allergy-prone readers, every dish is also nut-free. Beyond the recipes, there’s a Korean language section in the book that breaks down 16 useful Korean expressions all related to food.

You know what your fridge is likely lacking? BTS merch. Not to worry, though. You can now buy mini acrylic magnets depicting portraits of each member at Walmart. These magnets include all seven members of BTS, all suited up in their 2021 “Permission to Dance” live stage outfits. The magnets are currently on sale for $5.97, so you can buy all seven magnets without breaking the bank. Or you could be a proud solo stan and just grab one.

There’s nothing better than useful merch. This BTS branded tumbler is both useful and cute. The product is made of stainless steel both inside and out. Whether you’re drinking coffee or wine, the tumbler can hold 12oz of whatever you choose. Plus, the insulated interior keeps hot drinks hot and cold drinks cool. Additionally, the coffee tumbler’s tapered design allows it to fit seamlessly in most standard cup holders. The design centers around BTS’ logo along with the members’ signatures. If you’ve got an ARMY in your life that’s always on the go, this would make a unique and helpful gift.

Nothing beats a standard t-shirt. This one from Walmart is dedicated to those solo stans that want to rep their bias Jungook in a subtle but cute way. These tees are made of cotton and feature your standard BTS branded details, including the band’s logo, along with Jungkook’s respective BT21 character, a whimsical rabbit. You can shop this t-shirt in seven different colorways; however, the black is our favorite. The pink graphics set against the black background really make the merch pop.

Another day, another solo stan tee. If you’re a fan of Jin, you can snag yourself an oversized tee with his face on it in a butter yellow hue, very fitting. Other options available on Walmart include a black tee and a white tee in similarly baggy styles fixed with the graphic ‘RUNSEOKJIN Tour’ on the back and ‘worldwide handsome’ on the front. No matter which design you choose, the t-shirts are unisex and made of 100% cotton for a breathable finish.

These six-inch BTS figures are a K-Pop collector’s dream. Retailing for $11.99, each figure depicts one of the members in a colorful anime-esque style attached to a base so the figure can stand up. If you want to buy all seven members’ figures, the whole lot will run you $49.99.

Similar to the figure above, this figure depicts each member of BTS in a sweet little chibi style, but with a twist. These collectables were made in collaboration with Tamagotchi Nano, a miniature, portable version of the popular Tamagotchi virtual pet. Nestled in the lap of each figure, you’ll find a functioning Tamagotchi Nano loaded up with two mini games and little playable characters depicting the BTS members. Interactive and fun, we can envision this piece making a great gift for the gamer ARMY in your life.

On Dec. 31, 2017, local funk outfit Galactic played their annual sold-out New Year’s Eve bash at New Orleans’ famed Tipitina’s. The event was a long-standing tradition, but this time the beloved venue failed to pay the band. As one of the stage’s most frequent acts, the band and their management knew something wasn’t quite right.  

According to Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio, the band was informed by Tipitina’s owner Roland Von Kurnatowski that he was sorry, but there was no money. The band started hearing that other acts who played the then 40-year-old venue weren’t getting paid either. Von Kurnatowski, who reportedly purchased the venue without having stepped foot in it in 1996, “was mismanaging the money,” Mercurio explains.

The venue’s financial struggles led to conversations between Von Kurnatowski and Galactic’s manager Alex Brahl of 7S Management, who threw out the crazy idea that the band should purchase Tipitina’s. The band members assumed Von Kurnatowski wasn’t interested in selling, but after a few months of conversations with their manager circumstances changed.  

Von Kurnatowski “thought it was a good idea,” Mercurio says. “Truthfully, he had been approached by the Live Nations and the AEGs over the years and one of the coolest things he did was that he didn’t go to the highest bidder. He really wanted it to land in what he thought were proper hands, to keep it local and keep it focused on what it was intended to be.” 

The Tipitina’s building was first constructed in 1912 and over the past 100 plus years, it was utilized as a gambling house, gymnasium and brothel before becoming a music venue in 1977. A group of 14 local music enthusiasts, who wanted a fair club where musicians wouldn’t be taken advantage of, each put $1,000 in and opened The 501 Club on Jan. 14, 1977, but eventually renamed it Tipitina’s after the song “Tipitina” by New Orleans legend Professor Longhair. Professor Longhair (real name Henry Roeland Byrd) created a unique style by fusing rhumba rhythms with boogie-woogie, blues and southern R&B and was a frequent performer at the club before his passing in 1980.  

For years the venue housed a restaurant, bar and a juice bar (allegedly the origin of the banana in the Tipitina’s logo). A two-story building at the time, there were also apartments above the club where Cyril Neville of the Neville Brothers once lived, as well as countless other musicians, and, in the 1980s, one of the apartments housed the studios of radio station WWOZ. The radio station would occasionally broadcast a live Tipitina’s show by dropping a microphone through a hole in the floor.  

The venue was remodeled in the 1980s to become the venue it is today – getting rid of the apartments above and creating a venue with high ceilings and a balcony, creating backstage areas and enhancing sightlines. The juice bar is gone, but a mural of Professor Longhair hangs above the stage of the 800-capacity venue audiences see today.  

Despite its deep local history and legendary status among independent spaces, owning and running a single small club is a difficult feat for anyone, let alone a touring band like Galactic. On top of the typical complications of running a club – increasingly thin margins, constantly looming recession and the attention economy – Tipitina’s was also saddled with a bad reputation in years prior to the band’s interest in purchasing it.  

According to Mercurio, once the band was able to convince the local Small Business Association that they were qualified to purchase the venue, they soon found out Tiptina’s had been blacklisted by pretty much every booking agent due to lack of payment from the previous owner.  

“It was a shock and sad to hear that,” Mercurio says. “It made sense. We were like, ‘God, why don’t any of these national acts play here anymore? What happened?’ So, we have been digging ourselves out of that.” 

Their efforts have paid off with acts like The Killers playing a warmup show at the venue prior to their appearance at Jazz Fest two years ago. Additional national acts like Lyle Lovett, David Cross, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have also recently played the venue.  

In addition to not paying acts that performed at the venue, the previous owner Von Kurnatowski was reportedly under investigation by the FBI for an alleged Ponzi scheme. Von Kurnatowski died in 2019 after he shot himself during a hunting trip on his farm in Mississippi.  

To sweeten the deal for national touring acts – who could have their choice of endless venues in New Orleans, including the Live Nation-owned House of Blues – upon purchasing the venue in 2018, Galactic immediately got to sprucing up the backstage.  

“If you make the musicians feel honored or at least give them a decent place to sit, it’s gonna make the show better and the experience for the audience is going to be happier,” Mercurio says. “So, one of the first things we did was upgrade the backstage with not a lot of money, but gave it a fresh coat of paint and bought some better used furniture.” 

Tipitina’s has since upgraded the backstage more significantly. “We’re not going to beat Live Nation and AEG on money. They’re always going to have deeper pockets, but we can beat them at being the cool place to play in town,” Mercurio adds.  

Less than two years after getting the keys to the building, Galactic faced another unforeseen hurdle – a worldwide pandemic that shut down live music.

“We’re not only a band who’s out of work, but now we own this club and it was super stressful,” says Mercurio, who adds that they got creative and held high-end streaming events. They brought in multi-cameras and cranes and began selling a series of shows that would stream every Friday night to give friends and families some quality entertainment when they could not leave the house. The series went on for two seasons, while they and other venues affiliated with the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) fought for and eventually received funds from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant in 2021.

The band also started the vinyl subscription, the Tipitina’s Record Club. Started in December of 2020, the club’s selection is curated by Mercurio and Galactic saxophonist Ben Ellman and delivered to members every other month. The monthly selections range from reissues that can’t be found elsewhere, exclusive recordings of live Tipitina’s performances or newly produced New Orleans records. Everything is pressed at a local plant in New Orleans and shipped to people across the globe for 3,000 members.    

The vinyl club “was something we wanted to do just to make ends meet during the pandemic, but we’re on our 28^th release, which is kind of crazy,” says Mercurio. “I mean, 28 times 3,000 – it’s really amazing how many records we put out there.” 

Seven years later and several hurdles overcome, Mercurio says Galactic has no regrets about buying the building and the business.  

“When I moved here as a 17-year-old, I was [at Tipitina’s] within the first couple of weeks and had some of the best nights of my life seeing music,” says Mercurio. “It sounds great. The staff’s really chill. The outside area around the club is bustling. On the sidewalk, you can hang out and have a smoke and still hear the band. It checks a lot of the boxes of what I think a live music experience should be.” 

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From its voluminous releases to its bold genre-hopping, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has become known for blowing up the conventions that limit most rock bands. But even by the Australian sextet’s standards, its upcoming tour — where it’ll team with orchestras to bring its latest album, Phantom Island, and selections from its catalog to the stage — is unfamiliar territory.

“It was ultra intimidating, to be honest, at the start,” King Gizz vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Joey Walker tells Billboard in early July, as he commutes to the band’s third day of rehearsals for the tour in Melbourne. “We just had really no point of reference.”

“We’re not very good at rehearsing,” Walker’s King Gizz compatriot Stu Mackenzie explains with a laugh. “This one will have to be the most rehearsal [we’ve done] for a tour for a very long time, maybe ever, because there are so many people on stage… it’s gonna be a lot harder to go out on tangents like we usually do.”

But, lest fans of King Gizz’s famously off-the-wall live shows worry, the orchestral gigs are just another laboratory for the band to test the new and unexpected. “It’s just a different type of discipline,” Mackenzie says. “Improvising and doing stuff off-script feels like it should be undisciplined — but it’s actually, in a lot of ways, the most disciplined of all, because you need to be in such a specific headspace to even have the confidence to do it, that it takes a lot of mind over matter to actually just do that every night.”

It’ll also be a new experience for Sarah Hicks, the conductor who will lead ensembles such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Chicago Philharmonic as they perform King Gizz’s music. Under the guidance of arranger Sean O’Loughlin, who has helped translate music by Boyz II Men, Jason Mraz, Little Big Town and more to orchestras, the King Gizz scores still allow for the band to take musical detours.

“He’s been able to build in moments in our charts where it indicates for an orchestra, ‘OK, this is an open vamp. Stuff is going to happen. We need to wait for a signal from the band, through me, to know when we’re moving forward,’” Hicks says. “Sean is working with the band to figure out how to navigate those portions. It requires us to have a little more flexibility — but I think it also requires the band to understand the strictures within which we work as classical musicians.”

The shows will be the fruition of a nearly two-year planning process — one that inspired the band to also make an album backed by an orchestra, rather than the other way around, says Panache founder Michelle Cable, who books and manages King Gizz. When the band wrapped a tour at the Hollywood Bowl in November 2023, Johanna Rees, Los Angeles Philharmonic vp, presentations, suggested the concept of an orchestral tour to Cable.

Cable brought it to the band, which was so enamored with the idea that it decided to record the album that became Phantom Island, released in June, with an orchestra. Concurrently, Cable dipped her toes into the orchestral sphere — “It’s definitely not my world,” she says, though she calls the experience “fun and educational” — to select the best markets and ensembles for King Gizz.

“Suddenly, it’s not just about this band that is so independent and [for which] the DIY ethos is so significant,” she says of the undertaking. “Suddenly, we’re having to work around everyone else’s means and schedules.”

King Gizz will do eight orchestral shows in eight U.S. markets beginning on July 28, before staging a handful in Europe and Australia later this year. Promoters and ensembles in other markets have expressed interest in doing orchestral shows with King Gizz moving forward but, Cable says, the tour is “this moment in time to celebrate this album. It’s not going to be something we do again.”

Through the project, King Gizz has found enthusiastic partners in its orchestral affiliates. Jim Roe, president and executive director of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s — which will perform with the band in Queens, N.Y., and New Haven, Conn. — says the ensemble’s players “like all kinds of music that is not traditionally considered classical, and [playing with non-classical artists] really changes the pace for them… It keeps everyone on their toes. They love it.”

Adds Hicks: “There’s this stereotype we have of classical musicians being strait-laced, and [classical music] is all they do. But I would say a majority of us don’t listen to classical music in our off-time, that we have our own genres that we’re passionate about, that we’re drawn to an artist that, when they happen to be doing an orchestra show, we are just beyond the moon excited to work with.”

King Gizz’s orchestral shows are just one component, albeit a significant one, of their major summer plans. Inclement weather scuttled Bonnaroo this year, but before it did, the band was booked to play three days at the fest as its first resident artist. Live Nation/C3 promoter Stephen Greene, who has been involved in the festival’s planning for nearly two decades, has booked King Gizz for years regionally — and while the band first played Bonnaroo in 2015, he says the band’s appeal truly clicked for him in 2019, when he booked them for an outdoor show at New Belgium Brewing Company in Asheville, N.C.

“The 4,000 people that were there, every subgenre of music was represented,” he says. “It was just the most absolutely fun and out-of-control [experience], in the most positive and wild way. I hadn’t seen anything like that in a really long time — a crowd that reacted to a band in that way.”

Greene calls King Gizz “a core band for Bonnaroo,” because “they sort of transcend genre” — and for that reason, cooked up the idea with Cable of helping the group bring its residency model, through which it has played multi-show runs in markets around the world, to the Tennessee festival.

While Bonnaroo didn’t happen as planned, King Gizz will stage the ultimate residency in mid-August, when it’ll put on its first U.S. festival, Field of Vision, at Meadow Creek in Buena Vista, Colo., a couple of hours southwest of Denver. The event will feature three three-hour sets by King Gizzard, as well as performances by like-minded artists including Babe Rainbow, White Fence, Ryley Walker and King Stingray.

“We wanted to create something where we were more in control of creating this environment where the fans could really bond and have this long, extended experience together,” says Cable, who explains that by curating the event itself, the King Gizz team could ensure aspects from booking to camping to vending met its standards.

“This is a little bit of a beta test year, with the format,” Walker says. The band is “hoping to create something we can do yearly,” Mackenzie adds, “in a place where people can come back every year and have a good time and hopefully be surprised.”

Also on King Gizz’s horizon: a European “rave tour” this fall, where it’ll continue the electronic experimentation it’s recently tinkered with on albums like 2023’s The Silver Cord onstage at its concerts. But first, King Gizz will perform some nine hours of music at high altitude in the Rockies at Field of Vision.

“We’ll have to get in some breath training before we get out into the Rockies,” Walker says. “We’ll see how we go. If we all pass out on stage, I guess that’s cool.”

Kaytranada and Justice are going on a co-headlining North American arena tour this fall.

The 13-show run will launch on Oct. 17 in Vancouver, B.C., then hits arenas across the U.S. until it wraps in Miami, Fla., on Nov. 16. The run includes one currently unannounced show that’s blurred out on the poster and is happening between an Oct. 22 in Oakland and an Oct. 28 show in San Diego. (One is tempted to speculate that this show will be in Los Angeles.)

The co-headlining run follows Kaytranada’s remix of Justice’s “Neverender” that was released last October. The Tame Impala collab from the duo’s 2024 album Hyperdrama won the Grammy for best dance/electronic recording and gave Justice its first ever radio No. 1 in February.

On July 16, Justice also released a remix package of “Mannequin Love,” also from Hyperdrama, with fresh edits by The Dare, Braxe & Falcon and Hudson Mohawke.

This autumn tour falls into the timeline Justice told Billboard about in March, when the duo’s Gaspard Augé said the French duo would likely tour the lauded show debuted at Coachella 2024 this December. Following this, added Xavier de Rosnay, they’ll likely “pick a date and then dismantle everything” related to the live production “so that there can’t even be the temptation of saying yes to anything else.”

Both artists also have plenty of solo tour dates on the calendar ahead of this fall run. Kaytranada’s upcoming schedule including standalone shows and festival sets at events including HARD Summer and Breakaway Carolina and Justice’s summer schedule including festivals primarily in Europe and Australia.

Tickets for the run go on sale on Friday, July 25.

Prince was a musical legend, fashion icon and overall mystical being, but according to Nicole Scherzinger, he also wasn’t above crouching behind some greenery from time to time.

While talking about the late superstar on the Thursday (July 17) episode of Hot Ones, the Broadway star recalled a hilarious memory of Prince — whom she called “my mentor, my friend and my brother” — camouflaging himself in order to speak to her at a hotel in Las Vegas. Scherzinger and her friends had been there to see the High Priest of Pop perform later that night, but at the time, they were just chilling by the pool.

“We’re super excited to see the show and to see him perform and support him,” Scherzinger told host Sean Evans. “Me and my girlfriends are like, ‘This is awesome, the sun is shining, we get to see Prince tonight in concert, it’s gonna be magical.’ And me and my friends are talking, and then we hear a ‘Psst. Psst!’”

“We see this bush kind of moving,” she continued, trying not to laugh as she recounted the story. “And we hear, ‘Psst, psst!’ And I’ll be damned, Prince was hiding behind the bush trying to get my attention. I don’t know why!”

Scherzinger added that the Purple One was all decked out in full glam and shoulder pads as he stooped behind the bushes. “It was, like, noon,” she said as Evans cracked up. “Fully dressed, looked amazing. Just Prince-ing it up. Heels and all.”

Also on the show, Scherzinger — struggling to keep her composure in between bites of super spicy chicken wings — recalled how Prince came to see her perform in the 2014 West End revival of Cats. Shortly after the musical mastermind died at the age of 57 a couple of years later, the singer-actress wrote in a tribute on Instagram, “One cannot put into words the godly talent, power and magic he possessed … Through his integrity, Prince taught me the importance of being true to myself in this industry and through his wisdom and love, he has fueled my purpose and vision.”

Scherzinger’s appearance on Hot Ones comes as the star is closing one major career chapter while starting another. On Sunday (July 20), she’ll perform her final show of Sunset Blvd. on Broadway, for which she won a best actress Tony award in June. She’s now in the process of rolling out Building the Band, Netflix’s new singing competition series that finds the former Pussycat Dolls star guiding young singers as they form their own vocal groups.

The series premiered July 9 and also stars the late Liam Payne as a judge. In a recent interview with Billboard about the project, Scherzinger — who assisted in the formation of Payne’s former band, One Direction, on X Factor many years ago — said that Building the Band had been Payne’s “happy place.”

“I saw the joy it brought to Liam,” she said at the time. “To be able to bestow any inspiration and knowledge and wisdom and experience on any of these contestants and these bands, it brought us all joy. Particularly Liam. I felt this really inspired him and this was his happy place. This was his happy place because Liam was such a beautiful heart, and he loved to give back. He loved to help.”

Watch Scherzinger on Hot Ones above.