NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of June 24

1. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)

2. Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)

3. Pedro the Lion Achilles' Heel (Jade Tree)

4. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

5. Mirah C'mon Miracle (K)

6. The Helio Sequence Love and Distance (Sup Pop)

7. The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)

8. The Thermals Fuckin A (Sub Pop)

9. The New Mexicans Chicken Head Talking Diamonds (Under the Needle)

10. A.C. Newman The Slow Wonder (Matador)

11. Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica (Sony)

12. United State of Electronica United State of Electronica (self-released)

13. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)

14. Heart Jupiter's Darling (Eagle)

15. Kinski Don't Climb On and Take the Holy Water (Strange Attractors Audio House)

16. Kuma That Moment of Silence Before a Disaster (self-released)

17. Vells Vells (Luckyhorse Industries)

18. Hammerbox 2004-05-14 EMP Skychurch (Kufala)

19. The Girls The Girls (Dirtnap)

20. Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism (Barsuk)

Compiled from figures at Easy Street Records

(West Seattle and Queen Anne), and Sonic Boom

(Capitol Hill, Ballard, and Fremont).