on september 15, 2009 he released the album "shove" as part of the punk group the spears, which he co-founded around 2007 signed to jailhouse records, the spears lineup consisted of barrows on vocals, sam williams (down by law) on guitar, gary strickland (vocalist of hated youth) on bass, and rob rampy (d.r.i.) on drums. a remastered version of "shove" was released in 2013.