NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of September 4

1. Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House (Capitol)

2. Reggie Watts Simplified (NonLinear Productions)

3. The New Pornographers Electric Version (Matador)

4. The Long Winters When I Pretend to Fall (Barsuk)

5. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

6. Maktub Khronos (OSSiA)

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

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

9. These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant to Hurt You (Jade Tree)

10. New Pornographers Mass Romantic (Mint)

11. The Fitness Call Me For Together (The Control Group)

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

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

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

15. Pink Martini Sympathique (Heinz)

16. Downpilot Leaving Not Arriving (Blue Disguise)

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

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

19. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

20. Carissa's Wierd Songs about Leaving (Sad Robot)

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