BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of June 2

1. Sleater-Kinney The Woods (Sub Pop)
2. Decemberists Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
3. Blue Scholars Blue Scholars (self-released)
4. United State of Electronica United State of Electronica (Sonic Boom)
5. Aqueduct I Sold Gold (Barsuk)
6. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)
7. Headphones Headphones (Suicide Squeeze)
8. Death Cab For Cutie The John Byrd EP (Barsuk)
9. Luke Temple Hold a Match for a Gasoline World (Mill Pond)
10. Modest Mouse Lonesome Crowded West (Up)
11. Crystal Skulls Blocked Numbers (Suicide Squeeze)
12. Maktub Say What You Mean (Velour)
13. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
14. Smoosh She Like Electric (Pattern 25)
15. Screaming Trees Ocean of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996 (Epic/Legacy)
16. Richmond Fontaine Post to Wire (El Cortez)
17. Modest Mouse Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again (Epic)
18. The Epoxies Stop the Future (Fat Wreck Chords)
19. Modest Mouse This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About (Up)
20. Nirvana With the Lights Out (Geffen)

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