THE music store
On Madrid’s musical map, El Cuervo Music is THE store. It’s only been around for a short time (since the summer of 2010) but it’s good musical taste, decoration, and the whole scenesurrounding it seems to be attracting the music loving madrileños, not to mention the whole “concept store” idea they have going on. As the music industry currently stands, it’s nice to see that you can, in fact, really accomplish things.
We’ll break it down for you: Cuervo Music is an agency that manages national bands (like Angelus Apatrida from La Mancha) and distributes their music. They work with international bands as well (for example, the Swedish Backyard Barbies). After awhile, they realized it made sense to open up a storefront to help integrate their business in the community and sell albums from their groups, as well as others. That’s how El Cuervo Store came to be. It also represents another one of the concept stores populating Malasaña. In this case, it’s dedicated to music (rock, stoner and metal for the most part) but has clothes and books to offer. On their website you can see some of the brands they distribute: clothing, Cheap Monday, books and magazines, Vice, etc.
