Best of ACL: Foo Fighters, The Strokes, Halsey and others rock the weird city

This year, Austin City Limits brought the goods once again. With a first-weekend lineup rife with emerging talent, mainstays and a collection of artists who rarely tour aside from festivals, things got crazy.

Here's the best of what we saw this weekend:

Best Screaming: Brand New

Jesse Lacey and crew knew how to get things going Friday as they jammed through a set packed with favorites. Fans belted from their raspy throats for "Jesus Christ" and "Sowing Season" and didn't let up until the band left the stage.

Best Tag Team: Run the Jewels

Man, Killer Mike and EL-P are unstoppable. After two killer albums and the recently released Meow the Jewels remix album, it just keeps getting better. The duo had the crowd bouncing to crazy hype tracks like "Blockbuster Night Pt. 2" and "Run the Jewels," and had everyone swaying during "Sea Legs" and "Early," even bringing out crooner BOOTS to cap things off.

Best 'Covers': Brandon Flowers

Good old Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, gets the best "covers" award, because it's great just hearing him play Killers songs. Sure, his solo stuff is solid, but nothing beats the early 2000s anthem "Mr. Brightside," even if he does play some weird remix of it.

Best Crowd Chanting: Halsey

With a super rad haircut and killer pipes, Halsey rocked her set at ACL, and the crowd was in love with it. With her band behind her, Halsey took no liberties in making the stage her own. Throughout the whole thing the crowd chanted her name.

Best Raw Talent: George Ezra

You probably know George Ezra from "Budapest," which has played approximately 100,000 times on the radio. What you probably don't know is that this guy has an insane singing voice, and it carried through Zilker Park. Even if you didn't know the song you still had a foot tapping.

Best Stage Presence: Foo Fighters

Unbelievable. That's one way you could describe Dave Grohl and the rest of the Foos as they closed the first night of ACL. With Grohl's leg still broken, he played from a throne of guitars and didn't let the crowd forget it. With hits like "Everlong" and "My Hero" matched by lesser-known songs like "Skin and Bones" and "Monkey Wrench," the Foo Fighters crushed it.

Best Crowd-play: Twenty One Pilots

There's only one proper way to explain this: the duo of Twenty One Pilots brought drums out on top of the crowd and played them, as I mentioned, on top of the crowd. It was wild, and songs like "Guns for Hands" and "Car Radio" are a joy to finally hear live.

Best Act Late To His Own Party: A$AP Rocky

Not only was A$AP Rocky close to 30 minutes late for his set, but on his birthday no less! Well, I guess that's all right. He played a short and sweet set of songs and even offered the crowd a milkshake made on stage (his crew had a pseudo-50s soda shop set up).

Best Hype: Drake

Drake. Drake Drake Drake. I wasn't the biggest fan of Mr. Aubrey Graham before this show, but now I'm a believer. Drake knows how to put on a show, and he knows how to get the crowd moving. He even brought out Future, whom he recently released a mixtape with. Nothing beats thousands of people screaming "running through the six with my woes."

Best Childhood Memory Reimagined: Chance the Rapper

Chance the Rapper played his own take on the Arthur theme song. Yes, Arthur the aardvark. It was amazing.

Best Anthem: Of Monsters & Men

With a group like Of Monsters & Men, it's hard to not learn the words to their music. With songs like "Mountain Sound" and "Crystals" rounding out their set, they were the perfect intro to the last night of ACL.

Best Soul: Hozier

Man, Hozier just kills it live. Sure, we've all heard "Take Me To Church," but Hozier is much more than a radio hit. With a bundle of songs from his debut album, he proved that one dude can carry a whole festival of people.

Best Overall Performance: The Strokes

Sure, Julian Casablancas and his ragtag group of misfits were about ten minutes late, but they brought the goods.

Touching on each of its critically-favored albums, The Strokes powered through "Someday" and "Last Nite," took the crowd on a journey through "Reptilia" and "Machu Picchu" and turned things up for "You Only Live Once."

The killer riffs and crazy stage presence made The Strokes our overall pick for best of show.