HARD Summer 2024 Festival At Hollywood Park Generating Noise Complaints

If it’s too loud, you’re not necessarily too old. You may just be in El Segundo.

The El Segundo Police Department noted on X that it has received several calls about the noise emanating from the HARD Summer 2024 festival at Hollywood Park. The lineup caters to electronic, house, techno, dubstep, drum and bass, and hip-hop spread across five stages.

Acts performing included Nelly Furtado, Sofi Tukker, Disclosure, Bunt, Camden Cox, Oppidan, Sosa, and Teko, among others.

“We are aware of the loud booming sound affecting the city,” El Segundo department officials posted. “It is originating from a music festival near SoFi Stadium, scheduled from 2:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. today and tomorrow. There is no need to call 911 to report.”

Residents in the Inglewood-El Segundo area and surrounding communities are being affected, according to reports

“Who else in LA is hearing the Hard Summer techno event at Hollywood Park/ SoFi?” Karen Forshay, a producer-journalist-showrunner, posted on X. ” Residents from Manhattan Beach to Marina del Rey to Ladera have been hearing it for ten hours. I like techno music, but this is nuts. I can’t imagine what people [in] Inglewood are dealing with.”

Another resident, anonymously noted “How is it legal for that festival to be so loud? I can hear it from the beach. wtf?”

“Okay, this is just bonkers,” a resident posted on Reddit under the name Nice_Calligrapher427. “This dumb “Hard Summer Music Festival” at Sofi has been blasting away all day, and people 4-7 miles away can feel the bass from it and hear the terrible music. It was happening yesterday [Saturday], and its going to happen tomorrow [Sunday].”

The annual festival, scheduled 2-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, was being held for the first time at Hollywood Park, adjacent to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, with up to 70,000 daily attendees expected.

The show was previously held at the Shrine Exposition Hall, the Forum (now Kia Forum), Los Angeles State Historic Park, the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in El Monte, and the Fairplex in Pomona.