Gone will be the days of looking longingly at decades-old Dismemberment Plan gig posters, as humble blogger begs to get one of those college age moments back.

Because the Washington-D.C. based hiatus/retired band have announced plans for a reunion tour starting in January to support the vinyl re-issue of their groundbreaking 1999 record Emergency & I. Five gigs up the eastern seaboard, and Boston is lucky for one of them–January 28 at the Paradise.

Sputter. Sputtering.

It’s not a part of a greater scheme to start producing new music, but at least, we’re all “invited, for old times”: