Kali Uchis, a special back-to-back set from Zedd and Knock2, and a hip-hop set by DJ Snake will headline Hard Summer 2026 as the festival returns to Hollywood Park in Inglewood on August 1–2. Hard Events and Insomniac unveiled the full lineup this week, marking the event’s third year at the 300-acre SoFi Stadium complex and reinforcing its spot as the largest electronic-focused festival in Los Angeles. As Rolling Stone-style coverage notes, the bill again blends marquee pop and electronic names with club-forward and underground acts, including Mau P, Sammy Virji, and a Berlin-based Live From Earth stage takeover.
Hard Summer launched in 2007 and has since become a West Coast marquee event, known for mixing electronic, hip-hop, and crossover talent on one bill. This year’s undercard leans heavily into modern club sounds: Brutalismus 3000, VTSS, Hannah Laing, Vintage Culture, After Midnight (Matroda x San Pacho), Hyperbeam (Odd Mob x OMNOM), and Sally C all appear, alongside back-to-back sets such as DJ Seinfeld B2B Luuk van Dijk and X Club B2B Atrip. The Live From Earth stage highlights rave-meets-pop internet culture with 2hollis, Snow Strippers, MCR-T, Frost Children, Underscores and others, while Andy C: ALiVe, salute and Mary Droppinz anchor the drum & bass and garage contingent.
Dates, Tickets and Site Changes
Hard Summer 2026 is scheduled for August 1–2 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, with the festival’s official communications describing the dates as a two-day, 18+ event. According to Billboard’s report, organizers are rolling out a revamped site plan designed to improve traffic flow between stages and an expanded Green Stage area to give dancefloors more breathing room. The Hard Pre-Game community initiative will also return, partnering with Inglewood-area businesses to integrate the festival more deeply into the neighborhood around SoFi Stadium.
Two-day passes—General Admission, GA+, and VIP—are set to go on sale on Friday, February 27, at 10 a.m., with early SMS access starting at 9 a.m. the same day. Fans can purchase tickets and review the full lineup on the official Hard Summer website, where set times, stage splits, and any single-day options will be posted as they are finalized.
The SoCal Connection
For Southern California dance-music fans, Hard Summer at Hollywood Park has become an August ritual. The move to the SoFi Stadium campus in 2024 stabilized the festival’s footprint after years of site changes across Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, and this year’s layout tweaks respond directly to crowd feedback about stage crossings and bottlenecks. With a bill that ranges from Uchis’ cross-genre pop to hard-hitting techno, garage, and drum & bass, the festival mirrors the breadth of LA’s club ecosystem under one roof—or, in this case, under the open sky next to one of the world’s most recognizable stadiums.
Editorially, the stacked back-to-back bookings (Zedd x Knock2, DJ Seinfeld x Luuk van Dijk, and others) signal a broader festival trend toward collaborative, one-off sets built for social media moments as much as for the live crowd. At the same time, the inclusion of Live From Earth and a deep bench of club acts suggests Hard is still investing in the underground pathways that feed LA’s warehouse and after-hours scenes, even as it scales up at a massive complex like Hollywood Park.
Looking ahead, Insomniac has not yet announced additional Southern California dates tied to the Hard Summer lineup, but fans can expect pop-up events and local club takeovers to emerge as August approaches. In the meantime, the festival’s return anchors a busy late-summer concert calendar in Inglewood and reaffirms LA’s place as a global capital for electronic music festivals.
Last updated February 25, 2026.
Sources: Pasadena Star-News, Billboard
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