NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of July 3

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

2. The New Pornographers Electric Version (Matador)

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

4. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

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

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

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

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

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

10. Visqueen King Me (Blue Disguise)

11. Gatsby's American Dream Ribbons & Sugar (Rocket Star)

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

13. The Gossip Movement (Kill Rock Stars)

14. Marc Olsen Brighter When (Roslyn/Burn Burn Burn)

15. Pink Martini Sympathique (Heinz)

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

17. Ben Gibbard/Andrew Kenny Home: Volume V (Post-Parlo)

18. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

19. Supersuckers Motherfuckers be Trippin' (Mid-Fi)

20. Maktub Khronos (OSSiA)

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