NORTHWEST TOP 20

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

1. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

2. Damien Jurado Where Shall You Take Me? (Secretly Canadian)

3. The Minus 5 Down With Wilco (Yep Roc)

4. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

5. Visqueen King Me (Blue Disguise)

6. The Thermals More Parts Per Million (Sub Pop)

7. Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn (ArtistDirect)

8. Kinski Airs Above Your Station (Sub Pop)

9. Sharpshooters Twice as Nice (Light in the Attic)

10. The Be Good Tanyas Chinatown (Nettwerk)

11. The Briefs Off the Charts (Dirtnap)

12. The Divorce The Divorce (Fugitive)

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

14. Nirvana Nirvana (DGC)

15. Laura Veirs Troubled by the Fire (Bella Union)

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

17. Various Artists Dirtnap Across the Northwest (Dirtnap)

18. Blood Brothers This Adultery is Ripe (Second Nature)

19. Model Rockets Pilot Country Suite (Book)

20. 6 Minute Mile The Race for Second (Sonic Boom)

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