3,300 MINI owners have embarked on a cross-country journey that finds them making 17 stops along the way, and SPIN.com is rolling out all the tunes from their trek's companion album, Soundtrack to a Drive. Every song on the compilation is by a band local to each stop along the trek, which begins in Monterey before heading down the Pacific Coast to Santa Barbara. Southwestern cities Las Vegas, Flagstaff, and Albuquerque are the next destinations on the drive, and then the MINI crew heads to Texas, where they'll pull up in Amarillo and Dallas. From there, the drivers swerve over to St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Charleston, WV. Charlottesville, VA, Richmond, VA and Washington, D.C. are the trek's next stops before the roadsters steer up the Eastern seaboard to hit Jersey City and, finally, Lakeville, CT.

TODAY'S STOP: Las Vegas, NV
TODAY'S BAND: The Small Stars

The Small Stars hail from Reno, which doesn't share much more with its glitzier counterpart, Las Vegas, than casinos. But Nevada's not all that big of a place, and driving through the state listening to the Small Stars, dreamers who sing about mojitos and monkeys, is far from a gamble.

Song: "Otra Vez" (Download MP3)

Credits: Written by Miles Zuniga

On the Web: thesmallstars.com

Fasten your seatbelts and keep your eyes on SPIN.com for more tunes soundtracking the drive as MINI Takes the States. COMMENT