NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of Aug 14

1. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

2. The New Pornographers Electric Version (Matador)

3. Reggie Watts Simplified (NonLinear Productions)

4. The Divorce There Will Be Blood Tonight (Fugitive)

5. Dear John Letters Stories of Our Lives (Foodchain)

6. Carissa's Wierd Scrap Book (Sad Robot)

7. These Arms Are Snakes These Arms Are Snakes (Jade Tree)

8. Post Stardom Depression Ordinary Miracles (The Control Group)

9. Vendetta Red Between the Never and the Now (Epic)

10. The Ruby Doe Dream Engine Blue (Hometown Tragedy)

11. Rosie Thomas When We Were Small (Sub Pop)

12. Ruston Mire Driving Straight Up in Siam (Roam)

13. Alta May Dark Days (Glazed)

14. The Dandy Warhols Come Down (Capitol/EMI)

15. Anna Oxygen All Your Faded Things (Cold Crush)

16. Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet (Ropeadope)

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

18. Magic Magicians Magic Magicians (Suicide Squeeze)

19. Damien Jurado Holding His Breath (Acuarela)

20. Turn Ons East (Self-released)

Compiled from figures at Easy Street Records (West Seattle and Queen Anne), and Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill, Ballard, and Fremont).