The Strokes shot a video last night in Brooklyn, N.Y., for "12:51," the first single from their sophomore album, "Room on Fire," due Oct. 21 from RCA. As with videos for prior tracks such as "Last Nite," "Someday" and "Hard To Explain," the new clip was directed by Roman Coppola. "12:51" will be delivered Sept. 9 to U.S. radio outlets for airplay consideration and released commercially Oct. 6 in the U.K.

Like its predecessor, 2001's "Is This It," the new album contains 11 songs but at just over 32 minutes in length, is about three-and-a-half minutes shorter than the debut. A number of songs underwent last-minute renaming, with "Raga" changing to "Automatic Stop," "Supernova" morphing into "12:51" and "Never Needed Anybody" being altered to "Between Love and Hate."

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