nice bars that play indieish music:
-the elbow rooms on park street, quite expensive cocktails (£5) but they do 2for1 cocktails from 5-8 pm and deals on shooters, and im sure beer aint as expensive. dance floor upstairs and usually a young, indieish crowd
-the woods, on a side street off park st (forgot the name of the road but has natwest cashpoint on corner and its the turning after the coop as you come from the bottom of park street. the side street is between that coop and the spar). also quite expensive, but nice garden, generally an older (late 20s/early 30s) crowd and nice smoking area. about £3 for a single, £5 for a double. and i noticed when i went there on sat they played some old rock classics (and further down that road is the tube, a basement club which would probably play music in the electronic genre. you could always pass it and ask what's on that night. dojo's (the place i mentioned above with the night "groove on" is close to here, it's off park row, past the petrol station)
pubs that probably don't play indie music but are good anyway:
-the white hart is opposite the woods and it's quite cheap. mixed crowd, some chavs, some older drunkards and some indie/raver students!
-or if you want a cheap drink there's the weatherspoons on park street (called the berkley), generally quite a young crowd, generally drunken students, i'd say less of an "indie" crowd
-or the commercial rooms (another weatherspoons, so cheap) on corn street, which is in the centre of town, nearer syndicate. usually an older crowd with a few younguns
again, obviously massive sterotyping with the crowds
oh yeah and if u wanna know more about bristol music go on hijack (a music/culture forum for bristol - hijackbristol.co.uk). they chat a lot about random bristol things (e.g. best cafe's, bars, etc) and also a lot of weird threads on random ****. most ppl on there are into alternative music like dubstep, D&B, breaks, electro, techno, psytrance and not many people into "indie" (esp not cheesy indie!) but it's a good place to find out what's on. i warn you- they are a bit... weird!