Alternative-rock radio station Live 105 gives its listeners an early Christmas present with its annual holiday superstar blowout party, Not So Silent Night 2012. Oracle Arena in Oakland will host the the expanded two-night concert featuring a line-up of six popular groups from the station's heavy-rotation playlist each evening.

Friday night's bill is topped by alt-rock guitar hero Jack White. Though best known and loved as the creative force behind now-defunct garage-rock duo The White Stripes, White has proved himself to be a prolific and versatile musician with his membership in both the power-pop quartet The Raconteurs (pairing him with fellow Detroit songwriter Brendan Benson) and raging mutant blues-rockers The Dead Weather (featuring White on drums and vocals with charismatic Kills frontwoman Alison Mossheart). Less than a year after the dissolution of The White Stripes, White released his first proper solo album on his imprint Third Man Records to wide acclaim.

Blunderbuss cuts a wide swath of sounds, ranging from the blistering riffage of "Sixteen Saltines" to the electric piano driven grooves of "Missing Piece" and  "Love Interruption" and the rootsy, introspective songcraft of the title track and "On and On and On." Touring to promote the album with not one but two backing bands -- the all female Peacocks and the all male Buzzards -- White made a major splash at this year's Outside Lands Festival with a ferocious performance that drew on the album and all ofe White's other bands on the main Lands End Stage for the fest's closing day. This headlining set at Not So Silent Night is sure to pack the same kind of visceral power. The balance of the opening night bill includes an array of indie favorites with singer-songwriter James Mercer's band The Shins, new-wave influenced outfit Metric, rising indie-folk group Of Monsters and Men, punky New Jersey rockers Gaslight Anthem, and Two Door Cinema Club.

On Saturday, the show is topped by popular Las Vegas band The Killers. Formed in 2002 by singer Brandon Flowers and guitarist David Keuning, after Keuning placed a classified ad seeking collaborators, the took the fashionista pop world by storm in summer 2004 with the hit single "Somebody Told Me." The perfectly stylish song pulls from the band's influences -- the Smiths, New Order, Oasis, and the Cure -- and it was just enough to get them on MTV. Part new wave and part new-millennium post-punk, the Vegas foursome enjoyed one of the biggest alternative rock debuts when Island Records issued Hot Fuss.

The Killers' sophomore effort Sam's Town didn't get quite the same reception as the band's debut, but the Springsteen-meets-U2 anthems still found an audience among some listeners. The band would follow up in 2007 with the rarities/b-sides album Sawdust (an odd move for a band that was only 5 years old), eventually releasing another hit album with Day & Age the next year as well as embarking on their most extensive global tour yet. The Killers would go on a short hiatus in 2010, allowing Flowers the time to release his solo debut Flamingo. The group performs fan favorites alongside tunes from their latest album Battle Born. Saturday's more dance oriented NSSN line-up also features French electronic outfit M83, electro-pop group Passion Pit, Canadian indie-rock duo Tegan and Sara, Grouplove and Imagine Dragons.

Live 105's Not So Silent Night
Friday-Saturday, December 7-8, 6 p.m. $39.50-$59.50
Oracle Arena