NORTHWEST TOP 20

BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of May 27

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

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

3. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)

4. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)

5. The Thermals Fuckin A (Sub Pop)

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

7. Lucia From the Land of Volcanos (The Control Group)

8. Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica (Sony)

9. Alien Crime Syndicate Ten Songs in the Key of Betrayal (Control Group)

10. Various Artists This One's For the Fellows (Blue Disguise)

11. Modest Mouse Float On 7" (Epic)

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

13. Graig Markel Tall Tales on Tape (Sonic Boom)

14. Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism (Barsuk)

15. The Shins Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)

16. Hint Hint Young Days (Suicide Squeeze)

17. Modest Mouse Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again (Epic)

18. The Girls The Girls (Dirtnap)

19. The Catheters Howling... It Grows and Grows (Sub Pop)

20. Zeke 'Til the Livin' End (Relapse)

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