The Dismemberment Plan (and fans) performing “The Ice of Boston” at the 9:30 Club in January 2011. (Photo by Padmini)

Remember how awesome it was last January when The Dismemberment Plan played a whole weekend’s worth of shows at the Black Cat and the 9:30 Club? And then the reunion tour just kept on going, first across the East Coast followed by a swing through Japan and extending, eventually, to sets at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia.

Well, looks like summer 2012 will see a mini-reunion. On its Facebook page today, The Dismemberment Plan announced it will play two shows next month. On August 10, the band will play at Metro Gallery in Baltimore, followed by a set August 11 at in Fredericksburg, Va.

Tickets, some of which went on sale today through the band, are $20 a piece, with a maximum purchase of two per order. And they can only be claimed in person at the venues on the day of the show. (Bring photo ID, natch.) More tickets will be released Friday. But we recommend not waiting.

Why is The Dismemberment Plan coming back for a couple of nights? For fun, the band explained. “We were talking this spring and decided it’d be fun to play a couple of small, sweaty summer shows like we used to do,” they said in the Facebook announcement.

And while we’re on the topic of “sweaty summer shows,” there’s still at least one slot on the Fort Reno schedule marked “TBD.” Just saying.