Face The Music Conference Unveils High-Powered 2015 Program

This year's Face The Music conference in Melbourne continues to take shape, with organisers today unveiling even more industry experts and artists primed alongside a deeper look at next month's full program.

Leading the charge of newly announced speakers joining the existing line-up of aficionados will be a trio of industry leaders - namely, Warner Music Australia's Mardi Caught, Spinning Top Music's Jodie Regan and Chugg Entertainment's Susan Heymann - who will join forces to canvass lessons, ideas and examples from their joint ocean of inside knowledge to provide delegates with advice on everything from building a record label and touring operations to artist career advancement.

Also joining the fray will be the US-based editor-in-chief of Noisey, Fred Pessaro, who will lend his expertise to a panel on the future of music journalism alongside local contemporaries such as Rolling Stone Australia's Mathew Coyte and writers Brodie Lancaster and Marcus Teague, while things will get just a touch Germanic at the Urban Subcultures panel on the "grit and glitz of musically inspired urban subcultures", featuring Love Parade founder Dr Motte, Berlin-based writer Jochen Arbeit and lecturer/electronic musician David Haberfeld (aka Honeysmack).

Across the board, Face The Music offers its delegates myriad opportunities to wax philosophical on a raft of topics at its series of meetings and workshops for managers, producers and artists, with sessions on offer this year including the triple j Listening Lounge, The Evolution Of Digital Music workshop, Music Hacks digital marketing masterclass, Native Tongue Publishing 101 workshop, a drumming masterclass from the crew at SoundLab, an APRA AMCOS-backed songwriting masterclass with Holy Holy, and much more.

See the full list of newly announced speakers below, or head to the event's website for more information.

face the music 2015 - newly announced speakers

Archie Roach
Dr Motte (Love Parade - GER)
Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten - GER)
Mardi Caught (Warner Music Australia)
Susan Heymann (Chugg Entertainment)
Jodie Regan (Spinning Top)
Fred Pessaro (Editor In Chief, Noisey - USA)
artists Harvey Miller &Monte Morgan (Client Liaison), Ali Barter, Phoebe Baker (Alpine), Honeysmack, Oscar Dawson & Matt Redlich (Holy Holy), Murray Robertson (The Thunderbirds)
Chris Maund and Marihuzka Cornelius (Ivy League)
Damian Costin (123 Agency)
Harvey Saward (Remote Control)
Ian James (Mushroom Publishing)
Anita Nedeljkovic (Venue Collective)
Bill Armstrong AM (Armstrong Studios)
Dean Ormston, Andrew Harris & Nicholas Albanis (APRA AMCOS)
Joel Connolly (Umbrella)
Adam de Cata (Run It Wild)
Larry Heath (AU Review)
Matt Tanner & Kate Mills (Native Tongue)
Chrissie Vincent (Publicist)
Ben O'Hara & Byron Georgouras (Collarts)
Mikey Cahill (Herald Sun)
Chris Johnston (Fairfax)
Kirsty Rivers & Dean Linguey (Creative Victoria)
Peter Chellew & Melinda Krause (The Push)
Simon Winkler (3RRR)
Andrew Orvis (Queenscliff Music Festival)
Melanie Lewis (Spur Presence)
Marcus Teague, Jenny Valentish & Stuart Braun (Writers)
Cassie Walker (Peachy Entertainment)
Kate Duncan (Decibels)
drummers Alejandro Adams and Jeff Consi
Laura Semple (Semplesize)
Louis Cornell (Engineer)
Carolyn Laffan (Arts Centre Melbourne)
Alex Yabsley (Yamaha)