Dom Dolla is having quite the year, quite the career.

The electronic music star is ticking-off bucket list items like they’re Lotto numbers, a run that has included multiple sell-outs earlier in the year at New York’s Madison Square Garden; residencies in Ibiza and Las Vegas; a debut soundtrack release, “No Room For a Saint”, for the Brad Pitt vehicle F1: The Movie; and a first-ever stadium show booked at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, on December 20th.

Dolla (real name: Dominic Matheson) is the reigning electronic music champion at the ARIA Awards, Global Artist of the Year winner at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards, and he’s the current cover star of Rolling Stone AU/NZ, becoming the first homegrown solo electronic artist to do so.

Raised in the Philippines, then Darwin, Dolla spent his formative years in Melbourne. Now, like AC/DC, INXS, and other superstar acts that came before him, he’s outgrown his homeland and belongs to the world.

In an exclusive series of interviews, Dom recounted his early steps in music, from playing guitar to DJing at house parties, bowling alleys, and now the biggest festivals and rooms anywhere.

Dolla is a regular guy, albeit flying as high as any Australian DJ and producer. Tall Poppy Syndrome, “it’s still there,” he admits. “You have act and behave and communicate with a certain level of humility. Funnily enough, that’s the thing that Americans say to me is their favourite thing about Australian artists – the humility and the kindness and open-mindedness that they approach you with.”

Dolla graces the cover of our June-August issue, which hit newsstands in Australia and New Zealand earlier this month.

The magic sauce for success, he says in the cover story, is hidden in plain sight. Every Australian artist who has reached their lofty target “is committed,” he remarks. “RÜFÜS DU SOL is so committed. (FISHER) is so committed. Australia being at the forefront of dance music and dance culture, globally, I think is a reflection of how small our population is. Because we have such a small population, from a taste perspective, trends move really, really fast. So, a lot of Aussie dance music producers and songwriters have their finger on the pulse.”

Dolla boasts more than 1 billion streams, he’s a Grammy Award nominee, a three-time ARIA Award winner, and his famous friends and collaborators include Nelly Furtado and Pete Tong, both of whom discussed the man-of-the-moment with Rolling Stone AU/NZ.

Christmas came early to Dolla when his late 2024 homecoming tour of Australia, produced by Untitled Group, shifted more than 170,000 tickets, marking the largest-ever run by an Australian electronic artist.

Check out exclusive behind the scenes footage of his instantly-iconic cover shoot above.