The Cynics are an influential Garage rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. The band, consisting of guitarist Gregg Kostelich, drummer Bill Von Hagen, vocalist Michael Kastelic, bass player Steve Magee, and keyboardist and later founder of New York City's Bellwether gallery

Bellwether Gallery

Bellwether Gallery was a New York City art gallery based in Chelsea. Director and owner Becky Smith was recognized as an important promoter of emerging artists since the gallery's 1999 opening in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn...

 Becky Smith, debuted with their first album, Blue Train Station in 1986. She wrote one of the four extra tracks included on the expanded reissue of Twelve Flights Up, entitled Sixteen Flights Up.. (The other three tracks are cover songs.) They underwent a number of lineup changes culminating in 1990s Rock and Roll album. Get Hip Records

Get Hip Records

Get Hip Records is an independent Pittsburgh based music label and distributor formed by Gregg Kostelich in 1986. Kostelich used the label to release music by his own band, The Cynics, as well as other local, indie and retro garage rock bands.-Releases:...

 is their independent record label.

Members

• Gregg Kostelich - Guitar
  Guitar
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   (1983–1994; 2002–present)
• Michael Kastelic - Lead vocals
  Singing
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  , percussion (1983–1994; 2002–present)
• Pablo González "Pibli" - Drums (2008–present)
• Angel Kaplan - Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (2008–present)

Past members

• Becky Smith - Keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   (1986–1988)
• Bill von Hagen - Drums (1983–1987, 1988)
• Mike Kolesar - Drums (1987–1988, 1988–1989)
• Mike Quinlan - Drums (1988, 1991)
• Amy Mathesius - Bass (1985–1986)
• Max Terasauro - Drums (1993–1994)
• Pam Reyner - Bass (1983–1984)
• Steve Magee - Bass (1986–1990)
• Kris Kasperowski - Bass (1990–1992)
• Mike Michalski - Bass (1992–1994)
• Dave Vucenich - Bass, backing vocals (1993–1994)
• Richard Schnapp - Guitar (1985)
• Smith Hutchings - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (2002)
• Thomas Hohn - Drums (1989–1991; 2002)

Albums

• Blue Train Station (1986)
• Twelve Flights Up (1988)
• Rock 'n' Roll (1989)
• Learn to Lose (1993)
• Get Our Way (1994)
• No Siesta Tonight (Live in Madrid) (1994)
• Sixteen Flights Up (2000)
• Living is the Best Revenge (2002)
• Here We Are (2007)

Singles

• Painted My Heart/Sweet Young Thing (1984)
• No Place to Hide/Hard Times (1985)
• Lying All The Time/Summer's Gone (1986)
• '69/Friday Night (1986 - Fan Club)
• No Way/Dancing On The Walls (1987)
• I'm In Pittsburgh and It's Raining/Smoke Rings (1988 - Fan Club)
• I Don't Need You/Girl, You're On My Mind (1990)
• Buick Mackane/Born to Lose (1991)
• Right Here With You/Learn to Lose (1992)
• I Live Alone/Hand In Hand (1993)