NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of February 20

1. Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

2. Visqueen King Me (Blue Disguise)

3. The Divorce The Divorce (Fugitive)

4. Kinski Airs Above Your Station (Sub Pop)

5. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

6. Vendetta Red Shatterday (Epic)

7. Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs with Chords (Barsuk)

8. Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)

9. Maktub Khronos (OSSiA)

10. The Pale Gravity Gets Things Done (Always Never)

11. The Microphones Mt. Eerie (K)

12. Dolour Suburbiac (Fugitive)

13. Hint Hint Sex is Everything (Cold Crush)

14. Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste (Lucky Horse)

15. 6 Minute Mile The Race for Second (Sonic Boom)

16. Hookers Hookers (Cold Crush)

17. Pink Martini Sympathique (Heinz)

18. Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn (Merge)

19. The Loveless & Goodnight Trail The Loveless & Goodnight Trail (Sonic Boom

20. Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates (Suicide Squeeze)

Compiled from figures at Easy Street Records (West Seattle and Queen Anne), Orpheum, Singles Going Steady, and Sonic Boom (Ballard and Fremont).