BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of June 10
1. Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Oh, My Girl (Fargo)
2. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
3. A.C. Newman The Slow Wonder (Matador)
4. The Helio Sequence Love and Distance (Sup Pop)
5. The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop)
6. The Thermals Fuckin A (Sub Pop)
7. United State of Electronica United State of Electronica (self-released)
8. Pedro the Lion Achilles' Heel (Jade Tree)
9. Mirah C'mon Miracle (K)
10. The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
11. Alien Crime Syndicate Ten Songs in the Key of Betrayal (Control Group)
12. Modest Mouse Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again (Epic)
13. The Catheters Howling... It Grows and Grows (Sub Pop)
14. The Girls The Girls (Dirtnap)
15. The Long Winters When I Pretend to Fall (Barsuk)
16. Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts (Kill Rock Stars)
17. The Be Good Tanyas Chinatown (Nettwerk)
18. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
19. Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism (Barsuk)
20. Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica (Sony)
Compiled from figures at Easy Street Records (West Seattle and Queen Anne), and Sonic Boom (Capitol Hill, Ballard, and Fremont).
