By Rosa Barney

Tuesday at TT the Bear’s Place in Cambridge, pure girl power emanated from the speakers. But this was not of the Spice Girl variety; this was genuine rock goddess girl power from the female-fronted bands Medicated Kisses, The Dollyrots, Suffrajett and Pray For Polanski.

Pray for Polanski, led by Anne Warnock on vocals and Aviv Rubinstein on vocals and guitar, opened the show dressed in suits. Rubinstein said he and bass player Timmy Sullivan formed the band originally. After a rigorous Facebook search, they added trumpet player Jerry Skefos, drummer Dan Ramspacher and Warnock.

Rubinstein said the name was inspired by a piece of graffiti he saw in high school that was always on his mind.

The self-described “diner rock” band encourages fans to “bring dancing shoes and connect with our music,” Rubinstein said.

Pray for Polanski and Medicated Kisses are both locally based but Suffrajett and The Dollyrots are currently touring nationally and both claim to not be based in any one city.

Suffrajett came on second, and asked if anyone had a spare snare drum. Ramspacher of Pray for Polanski quickly came to the rescue and loaned out his for the set.

Suffrajett is fronted by Simi and has three other members, Kevin Roberts on bass, Danny Severson on drums and Jason Chasko on guitar. Suffrajett got its start in Chicago.

Simi said Suffrajett was not their first choice for a name.

“The CD was an hour away from going to print when our manager calls us and says ‘you can’t use Jet. There is an Australian band getting ready to come out with the name,'” she recalled.

Simi said the name has no intentional political connotations and was not originally intended to reflect the struggle of women trying to vote.

“It just worked out that way,” she said.

The Dollyrots are a trio fronted by Kelly Ogden on vocals and bass along with Luis Cabezas on guitar and Chris Black on drums. Ogden and Cabezas started the band when they finished school at New College in Florida.

“We just didn’t know what else to do,” Ogden said. “Our parents flipped.”

Ogden said The Dollyrots pride themselves on being different.

“We’re not trendy, we don’t change. We’ve been the same band all along and we’ve become more of ourselves and less of our influences,” she said.

Alanna Quinn is the frontwoman of local band Medicated Kisses, along with Aaron Giroux on bass, Sal Persico on drums, Ryan Murphy on guitar and Chuck McSteven on guitar.

Medicated Kisses have been together as a band for three years but have only been “serious about the music” for two years, Quinn said. They live and write their music in Boston but record their songs in New York.

“We record only one song at a time and haven’t come out with a new album in three years,” Quinn said. “We need time to perfect our sound.”

At the show, fans danced and sang along to their favorite songs. Quinn said she was not expecting such a large crowd.

“Thank you so much for coming out,” Quinn said from the stage. “I’m so impressed everyone is here on a Tuesday night.”

Most of the audience came to the show dressed in their favorite band’s T-shirt and many more T-shirts were sold throughout the night.

“I think it was a really cohesive show, which is rare with local and touring bands,” Rubinstein said. “Usually at local shows with more than one act people come to see their buddy’s band then leave. The show was really cohesive in terms of crowd and the bands, and [the fans] were really receptive to new music.”