Bass from Hard Summer musical festival in Inglewood rattles homes miles away

Inglewood officials believe an elevated stage at the Hard Summer music festival outside SoFi Stadium over the weekend likely led to the hours of rumbling bass felt across parts of the South Bay.

Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. contacted Hard Summer’s promoter immediately upon hearing about noise complaints from as far as five miles away in El Segundo and had the event reduce the decibels, he said in an email.

“While that mitigated the problem, the issue of bass transmission into...