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Fans of Samsung’s tech, rejoice. The beloved brand currently has some must-shop deals going on during Amazon Prime Day 2025.

We’re talking up to 45% off on a slew of innovative tech, from curved computer monitors and Bluetooth earbuds to high-tech AI rings that track the wearer’s health status. But you’ll want to act fast. These sale products, and so much more, can be found on Amazon until the end of the day on July 11, when Prime Day concludes. In the meantime, we’re helping you make the most well-informed decision possible before you buy by breaking down some of the best Prime Day deals on Samsung’s most raved-about pieces.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, 512GB Smartphone

$1,099.24 $1,419.99 23% off

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A smartphone with a stilus wand.

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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra can run you up to $1,400, depending on where and when you purchase the smartphone. Right now, you can get the coveted tech for just $1,099.24. In case that doesn’t sell you, this Samsung smartphone features the most advanced camera system yet. If you’re into taking pictures or video, the phone comes equipped with a 200MP wide-angle lens and an upgraded 50MP ultra-wide lens for crisp and clear detail in every frame. You’ve also got a longer battery life and a durable water-resistant titanium frame that not only looks good, but keeps your phone lasting longer too.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro AI True Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds

$189.99 $249.99 24% off

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Bluetooth wireless earbuds with AI capabilities.

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You can’t get a quality listening experience without good tech. Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro should be the pick for the audio fanatics who want to jam out to their favorite tunes with the highest quality sound possible.

The neatest feature attributed to these earbuds is the Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation, thanks to Samsung’s Galaxy AI². This feature means that your buds will automatically adapt to your surroundings so you can tune into your music without interference. The Adaptive Equalizer feature also prioritizes optimum sound so you can get the most out of your listening experience every time. If you’re afraid of losing or breaking your buds, Amazon is offering an exclusive two-year warranty when you buy during Prime Day.

Samsung Galaxy Ultra 47mm LTE AI Smartwatch

$359.99 $649.99 45% off

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A smart watch with AI capabilities.

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This isn’t just a watch. It’s much more than that. While this Samsung tech may help tell time, it comes jam-packed with other unique capabilities that are harnessed through the power of AI. For those looking to get on their wellness journey, the Ultra 47mm LTE AI Smartwatch comes equipped with a health tracker that tracks your activity so you can perform at your best every day. The watch offers extremely precise readings on heart rate and shares wellness tips to help you better yourself. What’s more, this do-it-all watch is currently available for $359.99, 45% off its original price.

Samsung 27″ Essential S3 (S36GD) Series FHD 1800R Curved Computer Monitor

$164.99 $179.99 8% off

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A curved computer monitor perfect for gaming.

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This is for our PC gamers. Samsung’s 27-inch Essential S# Series FHD 1800R Curved Computer Monitor is currently on sale for $164.99. The curved construction is meant to enhance visuals by wrapping more closely around your field of vision, creating a wider view that minimizes peripheral distractions. For those long gaming sessions, the monitor includes built-in eye comfort technology that reduces strain. Additionally, the 100Hz refresh rate reduces lag and motion blur. You’ll be gaming like a pro in no time.

Samsung PRO Plus Sonic The Hedgehog SD Card

$94.99 $116.99 19% off

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A Sonic the Hedgehog inspired SD card.

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Here’s something for Sonic the Hedgehog fans to celebrate. Samsung’s Pro Plus Sonic the Hedgehog SD Card is currently on sale for $94.99. This themed tech was practically made for gamers. It includes storage of 128GB up to 1TB, so you can upgrade your gaming library with ease. If you’re not the gaming type but you’re looking for an SD card with ample storage, this Samsung tech can also hold high-res files, photos and 4K videos. The SD card is compatible with a slew of devices, including Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, GoPro, tablets and smartphones. If you’re prone to accidents, this SD card is also able to withstand water damage and extreme temperatures. It’s nifty tech with a gamer theme.

Samsung Galaxy AI Smart Ring

$299.99 $399.99 25% off

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An AI smart ring that tracks a slew of health-related data.

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This Samsung Galaxy AI Smart Ring is like something out of the Star Trek universe. Retailing for $299.99, this ring acts as a sleep monitor, heart rate monitor and activity tracker. Compatible with Android smartphones, the tech works by continuously analyzing and compiling your body’s activity and frequent patterns to create an algorithm that you can comprehend without lifting a finger. The ring is lightweight, durable and sleek, acting as a fashionable accessory and a fitness tracker all in one.

Thirty-five years ago, in their one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, college student Erin Kelly-Burkett and punk frontman Michael John Burkett invited 10 friends to celebrate their new record company’s first seven-inch single. Because they were out of money for artwork, the assembled group doodled on the record’s label. 

“We had Burgie beer and sat around in this big pile with markers,” Kelly-Burkett recalls. “I ended up doing a lot of the mail-order by myself in our kitchen. I didn’t expect to really make any money off it. It was just something we did for fun.”

On Wednesday (July 9), Kelly-Burkett and Burkett, the NOFX singer known as Fat Mike, will step back from Fat Wreck Chords, the label they founded in 1990 – a move made possible by a new partnership with fellow indie punk label Hopeless Records. (Neither side would disclose the financial terms of the deal.) In a unique arrangement, Hopeless will acquire Fat Wreck’s catalog of master recordings, while Fat Wreck will leave its more than 100 artists debt-free by wiping out their unrecouped balances (according to Burkett, the total amount of unrecouped balances being forgiven totals $3.5 million).

Additionally, Hopeless will be disallowed from signing new artists to Fat Wreck, and Burkett and Kelly-Burkett will retain ownership of Fat Wreck’s logo and trademark.

“Erin, towards the end of the deal, said, ‘I don’t want to give up what we built,’” Burkett says. “Say Louis sold it, and he sold the Fat Wreck Chords logo, any label or any other person could put out other bands on the label. We ensure that it’s pure. I don’t want any band on my label — that’s my namesake — that I don’t like.”

“We’ll be working with them on a ton of different things. They’ll be as involved as they want to be,” adds Louis Posen, who founded Hopeless – home of All Time Low, New Found Glory, Avenged Sevenfold and others – a year after directing a video for NOFX’s “Bob” in 1992. “I expect them to want to continue putting a spotlight on everything that they built.”

Fat Wreck Chords, which began as a means for Fat Mike to put out NOFX’s music, has, over the years, released albums by landmark punk bands such as Rise Against, Against Me! and Descendents, becoming known for a certain loud-guitar sound that draws from the Sex Pistols and the Clash but frequently adds pop melodies and a sarcastic, word-playing sense of humor.  Its current roster includes Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Sick of It All and No Use for a Name.

“It’s very pure. It’s a punk-rock label where we’ve never got sued in 35 years,” Burkett says. “There were a couple of audits, but they didn’t lead to anything. No one can say that s–t.”

Kelly-Burkett and Burkett began discussing a partnership with Posen and Hopeless about a year ago. The former couple, who divorced in 2010 after 18 years of marriage, wanted to ease out of day-to-day label-management duties while finding a way to “give back to the bands and have them participate in this partnership deal,” Kelly-Burkett says. The Fat Wreck duo had conversations with a few other labels, she adds, but quickly chose Hopeless because Posen was “not wanting to change this 35-year legacy that we’ve built.”

Fat Wreck Chords is a profitable indie whose model is based on its long-running mail-order system. Overhead is more than $1 million annually, according to Burkett, including employees, insurance and warehouse space. “There is something to be said for volume,” says Burkett, whose band NOFX retired last October, “and we put out a lot of records over 35 years.” Kelly-Burkett adds: “Punk rockers love their vinyl, they love their collectibles, they love their one-of-a-kind. Streaming is the market share now, but not as much as you would think.”

With today’s announcement, the labels will release new albums by well-known Fat Wreck bands: Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s Lighten Up; a NOFX rarities album, A to H; and Strung Out‘s Exile in Oblivion. “It was important we didn’t announce, ‘Oh, there’s a partnership and acquisition,’” Posen says. “We wanted to have new releases and show this is an active partnership.” 

Moving forward, Burkett and Kelly-Burkett plan Fat Wreck-branded pop-up shops and festivals. “I can leave some of the stress of running the daily business and just focus on celebrating it,” Kelly-Burkett says.

HYBE Latin America is turning the spotlight on the future of Latin pop with Santos Bravos, its newest project designed to discover and shape the next Latin pop group.

Officially announced on Wednesday (July 9), Santos Bravos is both the name of the new project and the final group that will emerge from it. This initiative is HYBE’s first venture into applying its globally recognized pop artist development system — the same one responsible for launching K-pop superstars including BTS, SEVENTEEN, and ENHYPEN — within a Latin American setting.

Beginning this August, the initiative will bring together 16 rising artists from across Latin America — including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Spain — and the U.S., giving them the opportunity to showcase their talent as they compete to form the new group.

“Our goal is not just to create a group, but to guide young Latin artists through a real transformation — artistically and personally,” said Bang Si-Hyuk, chairman of HYBE, in a press release. “Santos Bravos is about authenticity, emotion, and connection.”

Earlier this year, Telemundo and HYBE Latin America teamed up to launch music competition show and discover the next regional Mexican band with Pase a la Fama, featuring a star-studded panel of judges, including Ana Bárbara, Adriel Favela and Horacio Palencia.

Throughout the Santos Bravos competition, the 16 artists will undergo an intensive creative boot where their “musical, emotional, and performance abilities” will be put to the test. Ultimately, five finalists will become the members of Santos Bravos, also the name of the new Latin pop group “that reflects the voice of a generation and showcases talent on the global stage,” says the press release.

An international team of creative mentors will lead the process, including creative director Kenny Ortega (High School Musical, Michael Jackson), music producer Johnny Goldstein (Shakira, Daddy Yankee), vocal coach, RAab Stevenson (Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, SZA), and showrunner Jaime Escallón (The X Factor, Survivor, Wendy Perdida pero Famosa).

Meet the 16 participants below:

Olivia Rodrigo did something for her crew on the Guts tour that blew rhythm guitarist Daisy Spencer’s mind: she paid for free therapy for her team during the run of shows, as well as when they were off the road. The veteran performer opened up about the loving gesture from her boss on a recent episode of the StageLeft podcast, during which she said she had “fallen off” her therapy regimen lately following a struggle to find the right therapist.

“And then, on the Guts World Tour, Olivia and our tour manager, Marty Hom, made accessible and free therapy for all of the touring personnel,” Spencer said of the sprawling outing that launched in California in Feb. 2024 and kept the “Good 4 U” singer on the road through Oct. of that year, before picking up again in January of this year with a run of international dates that wrapped on July 1 in Manchester, U.K.

“I have never had anything like that. And that reignited the importance of therapy to me because I had just kind of fallen off for so long, and then suddenly I had this free resource of incredible therapists, and I utilized the crap out of that,” said Spencer.

The 31-year-old session and live guitarist said as a result of Rodrigo’s gesture, she went to see a therapist once a week, or every other week, even during the off times when the tour was not on the road and the the crew still had access to the services. “Honestly, that was one of the coolest things that has ever happened on tour,” she said. “Like, seriously, one of the best things you can give to people is accessible free therapy, because it can get kind of expensive.”

The veteran performer who has been touring since she was 17-years-old said the sessions really helped her deal with a lot of her unprocessed trauma from her younger years, which is why taking that time to prioritize mental health was, “doing baby Daisy a good justice of finally getting to hear baby Daisy’s story of what they were going through when I was younger and everything.”

Rodrigo, 22, has been open in the past about seeing a therapist beginning when she was a teenager, something she said has really helped her prioritize her mental health. The singer, whose dad is a family therapist, told CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 that she began seeing a therapist when she was 16 and that it was a “really big, life-changing moment” that helped her learn a lot about herself.

“Sometimes people are like, ‘Oh, you don’t need that, you have so much, your life is so great, what are your problems?’” Rodrigo said at the time. “I think that’s definitely a thing that sometimes older people can do to younger people, too, is kind of trivialize what they’re going through just because they’re like, ‘Eh, they’re fine, they’re just kids, they’ll get through it.’ But it feels so real when you’re in it, and it’s so valid, and just because it’s not an adult problem or you don’t have to pay taxes yet or whatever doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.”

Spencer added that the on-the-road therapy has been, “a gift for real. I feel like it is such a gift to be able to look within yourself and have someone else help you bring some stuff out of you that you might otherwise on your own not be able to get there. That’s the gift that therapy has given to me, is that I am able to really flesh out some stuff from my childhood that that needed a voice.”

At press time a spokesperson for Rodrigo had not responded to Billboard‘s request for comment on Spencer’s interview.

Watch Spencer talk about how therapy on the road has helped her — as well as how she creates a “stage persona” for arena crowds, her guitar part on “Vampire” and playing “Hot To Go” with Chappell Roan — below.

Spiritbox are gearing up to hit the road once again, announcing an extensive U.S. fall tour in support of their latest album, Tsunami Sea.

The Canadian metal juggernauts will be joined by progressive metal stalwarts Periphery and rising alt-pop act Honey Revenge for the 19-date run, which kicks off Nov. 12 in Ontario, California, and wraps up Dec. 7 in Wallingford, Connecticut.

The upcoming trek marks Spiritbox’s second North American outing of 2025, following a string of summer festival appearances and a high-profile slot at Louder Than Life in September. Fans were recently treated to a preview of the band’s electrifying live energy when Spiritbox performed “Soft Spine” during their late-night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on July 7.

Pre-sales for select dates begin Wednesday, July 9, at 10 a.m. local time through Live Nation using the code LIGHTS. General tickets go on sale Friday, July 11, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The Tsunami Sea era has proven to be a breakout moment for Spiritbox. Released earlier this year, the album marked their second No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, and spawned the fan-favorite singles “Soft Spine” and “Torrential.”

It’s the Courtney LaPlante-led band’s second ruler on Top Hard Rock Albums, following Eternal Blue, which reigned in 2021. Between the two LPs, Spiritbox also made the ranking with the EP The Fear of Fear, which peaked at No. 5 in 2023.

Spiritbox’s 2025 U.S. Fall Tour is packed with arena and theater dates, including stops at Austin’s H-E-B Center, Detroit’s Masonic Temple Theatre, and Nashville’s Pinnacle. The band will also visit smaller markets like Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Kingston, Rhode Island, offering a range of intimate and large-scale experiences for fans.

Periphery, fresh off their 2025 release Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre, will bring their signature technical wizardry to the tour, while Honey Revenge, whose debut album Retrograde Heart has been praised for its infectious hooks and alternative edge, will add an exciting contrast to the lineup.

The full list of dates is below:

Spiritbox 2025 U.S. Fall Tour Dates:
Nov. 12 – Ontario, CA @ Toyota Arena
Nov. 13 – Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater
Nov. 15 – Albuquerque, NM @ Revel Entertainment Center
Nov. 18 – Austin, TX @ H-E-B Center at Cedar Park
Nov. 19 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
Nov. 21 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
Nov. 22 – Omaha, NE @ Steelhouse Omaha
Nov. 23 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre
Nov. 25 – Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle
Nov. 26 – Cincinnati, OH @ Andrew J. Brady Center
Nov. 28 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live!
Nov. 29 – Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo RiverWorks
Nov. 30 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
Dec. 2 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Special Event Center
Dec. 3 – Virginia Beach, VA @ The Dome
Dec. 5 – Lancaster, PA @ Freedom Hall
Dec. 6 – Kingston, RI @ Ryan Center
Dec. 7 – Wallingford, CT @ Toyota Oakdale Theatre