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This article, originally published Sept. 28, is slightly updated.
Tickets remain available for a pair of homecoming club performances this week in Southwest Detroit by Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas.
Their Thursday and Friday shows at El Club, 4114 Vernor Hwy., follow a 14-state tour through the West, Southwest and Midwest that began Sept. 15 in Kalamazoo and ended Oct. 15 in Madison, Wis.
"We will be . . . playing songs from our new album, as well as some old tunes, in both English and Spanish," the 29-year-old lead singer posts on Facebook.
Those old tunes are from "Secret Evil," a well-reviewed 2014 album released by Instant Records in New Orleans.
Jessica Hernandez and band "We can't wait to be home with family and friends," she posts Wednesday. (Photo by Colleen Durkin)
General admission tickets for the 8 p.m. Detroit shows are available for $15 here (Nov. 17) and here. Fans can avoid a service charge by buying them at Mexicantown Bakery, 4300 Vernor Hwy,, which Hernandez's parents own.
The price rises to $18 at the door. The bar opens at 5 p.m. (Opening bands are Empty Houses on Thursday and Messenger Birds on Friday.)
The local club describes the band's sound as "equal parts rockabilly and surf pop, cabaret jazz and funky reggae, Latin psych and Gypsy punk."
Hernandez, who got married seven months ago and now dyes her black hair blond, says on social media: "We can't wait to be home with family and friends!"
She and The Deltas have been together since 2008. They made a national splash in November 2014, performing "Sorry I Stole Your Man" (video below) on "The Late Show with David Letterman." They played last year at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and this month at Riot Fest Chicago
Band members are Michael Krygier, Steve Lehane, Taylor Pierson, John Raleeh and Stephen Stetson. Their last Detroit show was at St. Andrews Hall nine months ago.
Hernandez tells Jack Roskopp of Metro Times that she hasn't yet been in El Club, which he calls "the city's newest and most buzziest venue."
The writer adds:
With its DIY-aesthetic and Southwest neighborhood location, Hernandez and the Deltas will feel like home there.
"My dad and his friends go to El Club probably more than anyone else in the city," Hernandez says as we both laugh at the thought of her dad partying it up more than she does. "He will send me photos of him and his friends with the bartenders and staff there. He'll even tell me that I'm better than the bands they are playing. Like, total dad move.
"He was sending me videos of when Sleigh Bells performed there a few weeks ago and I'm like, 'How is my dad at a Sleigh Bells show and I am not?'"
Hernandez's family -- a Mexican mother and Cuban father -- owns Armando's in southwest Detroit. She grew up in West Bloomfield.
